Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.